10 books
Aaron Rolph
In the hands of Europeans, a mountain hut is more than shelter. It’s an expression of centuries of culture and intimate knowledge of life in the continent’s highest peaks. The photo-dense Alpine Refuges offers a tour of some of these…
Zack Klein
Zach Klein co-founded Vimeo, then in 2010 bought fifty-five acres of woods in upstate New York with his wife and some friends and started building. They needed ideas, so they made a Tumblr to collect pictures of handmade cabins, and…
Gestalten
The follow-up to Rock the Shack, and the pitch is in the title: Buildings you inhabit to not to be found. They’re cabins, huts, treehouses, bothies, and small retreats from around the world, shot well and presented with plans and…
Martin Hogue
Hogue teaches landscape architecture and looks at camping the way an architect looks at a building — as a designed system nobody notices. The campsite with its numbered post, fire ring, picnic table, and parking spur is an invention with…
Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand
A history of the American interior between roughly 1940 and 1970, and it’s about interiors rather than the famous chairs. Havenhand covers the designers who shaped how rooms looked and worked — Florence Knoll, Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Van Day…
Tove Jansson
For twenty-six years, Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent summers on a bare platter of rock in the Gulf of Finland, a tiny speck called Klovharun, living their dream of art and isolation. Her…
Gestalten
The one that started the small-cabin publishing run. Huts, shelters, and retreats from the last couple of decades, plus a handful of older icons, arranged for browsing — forest cabins on stilts, mountain refuges, a sauna at the end of…
Matt Titone
No matter how swanky the houses in the third iteration of Gestalten’s addictively voyeuristic Surf Shacks series, you know there’s sand on the floor—maybe not in the luscious pictures, but just before or after. What distinguishes these forty homes, from…
Indoek
Matt Titone is a SoCal graphic designer with a wide range of creative projects, including a Ventura, California gallery called Indoek. In this first of his three “surf shacks” books, he photographed surfers at their homes, not in the water,…
Monroe Robinson
In 1967, at age fifty-one, Dick Proenneke retired from a peripatetic life as a diesel mechanic, salmon fisherman, and repairman and settled in southwest Alaska, where he spent the next thirty years living intimately with the land. A master craftsman,…
